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Jeez, I changed my password just now. Considering who wrecked the joint, I'm genuinely worried about my new laptop and smartphone being compromised.

'Poverty is not an injustice. There is no such thing as causes for poverty, only causes for wealth. Poverty is not a wrong, but taking money from those who have it to equalize incomes is basically theft, which is wrong.' - Typical Randroid

And we're back.

Thank you SO MUCH for your patience on this, and to the mods who prodded me to keep trying when it was incredibly tough going in the database and I wanted with every fibre of my being to give up.

So, I can confirm the hack was due to a vbulletin security flaw not a personal attack, and not a database or password issue. There were hundreds of forums downed by the same thing all over the world, which was awful, but also good because I did have some useful help posts to trawl through. The security flaw is now closed.

Your passwords and personal info are fine - they used scripts to give themselves access to the template files and so on - but if you would rather be sure I suggest you change them. Belt and braces when it comes to security.

Please let me know if you notice anything weird. I will be doing cleaning up and so on over the next little while, adjusting security settings and so on.

In the name of openness, the developer announced an exploit in VBulletin recently.

It seems that this hacker group just searched around the internet and hacked anything they could using a publicly available exploit.

I wouldn't put these guys on some kind of pedestal as skilled or talented people who attacked the site. More like the person at the back of the room who hears something they can take advantage of but doesn't have the consideration to think of the people they affecting.

Um, well if you can believe what they uploaded they're a bunch of Islamic fanatics and they spit on our imperialist decadent forum.
But they're probably just a bunch of bored pimply teenagers with no mates.